sb. and a. [ad. late L. ultrāmundānus, f. ultrā beyond + mundus the world. Cf. F. ultramondain, Sp. ultra-, It. oltramundano.]
† A. sb. pl. Matters lying outside the physical world; metaphysics. Obs.–1
1549. Chaloner, Erasm. on Folly, M ij. He had spent whole xxxvi yeeres togethers in studiyng the Phisicals and Vltramundans of Duns and Aristotle.
B. adj. Lying beyond or outside of the world; of or belonging to things beyond the limits of the solar system.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Ultramundane,… supercelestial, beyond or above the sky. Dr. Charl.
1665. Boyle, Occas. Refl., Occas. Medit., 35. A Faculty … by whose help the restless mind … roves about in the ultra-mundane spaces, and considers how farr they reach.
1697. J. Sergeant, Solid Philos., 180. They will needs conceit there is some Ultramundane kind of Thing existent out of the world.
1807. Edin. Rev., X. 147. The particles by which this effect is brought about, are called by Le Sage … the ultramundane atoms.
1845. J. H. Newman, in Ward, Life (1912), iii. I. 80. He dies a Pantheist denying that there is an Ultramundane God.
1876. P. G. Tait, Rec. Adv. Phys. Sci. (1885), 368. The very ingenious idea of the ultra-mundane corpuscles, the outcome of the lifework of Le Sage.
